Book excerpt: Excerpt from Proceedings of the Third National Conference for Good City Government and of the Second Annual Meeting of the National Municipal League: Held at Baltimore May 6, 7 and 8, 1896 Municipal League, brought out and emphasized three noteworthy facts. In the first place, there was a recog nition on the part of nearly all the speakers of civil service reform as a pre-requisite to municipal reform. President Carter's annual address dwelt upon this point, and the paper of Merritt Starr on Chicago Since the Adoption of Municipal Civil Service Reform showed conclusively that the introduction of the merit system results in securing a large measure of good govern ment. The statement of President Carter that, when civil service reform is installed in our cities, not only do we secure a faithful man for the office, but we get rid of a man who was known before not to serve faith fully but to prostitute the office to a ward boss, was illustrated by the experience of Springfield, Mass., as related by Mr. George A. Denison, of the Springfield Republican. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.